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The 2010-2011 school year may get a little shorter for the Jackson County School System. Facing additional revenue cuts, the school system is expected to trim eight days for certified and classified employees, and four days for students for next year’s calendar. The Jackson County Board of Education is slated to vote on the proposal on ...
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It’s time to tone down the Jefferson speed traps. In an apparent bid to raise revenue, Jefferson cops have reportedly been pressured by superiors to write more tickets. If that sounds like an echo, it is. Small towns in and around Jackson County have been struggling with their budgets for months. The result has been increasing pressure on ...
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Local option sales tax revenue for the first three months of this year was up 5.6 percent over the same period one year ago. The latest check the county received, which was for sales made in March, was $424,115. The county also received a March pro-rata LOST distribution in the amount of $2,450 derived from unidentifiable sales and use tax ...
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The Jefferson Police Department has announced the death of one of its dogs, Ayok, who was found dead in his kennel last Thursday at 9 p.m. The cause of death is not known yet but an autopsy was performed by the University of Georgia Vet School. The results will be available within the next few weeks. Ayok, with his partner, Officer Jay Parker, ...
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Early voting for the July 20 election will begin Monday and be held through July 9. Voters may cast a ballot from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays in the Administration Building in Jefferson. The only local race is in the West and North Jackson areas for the District 5 seat on the Jackson County Board of Education. Steven Bryant and ...
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The dramatic hiring reversal this week by a member of the Jackson County Board of Education was wrong on so many levels that it’s difficult to know where to begin. Although the intentions of BOE member Michael Cronic in reversing his vote may have been good, his inexperience as a board member in the action sets a terrible precedent for the ...
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The percentage of juniors passing a state-mandated graduation test dropped dramatically at East Jackson Comprehensive High School. Students taking the test at the school this spring failed at a higher rate than last year’s students and were under the overall state average in all four subject areas. At Jackson County Comprehensive High School, ...
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A Jefferson man was given a life sentence, which calls for a mandatory 25 years behind bars, Thursday by Superior Court judge Joe Booth on child molestation charges. Kelly Clark Plummer, 48, was convicted by a Jackson County jury of aggravated child molestation, child molestation and cruelty to children in the first degree. The charges stemmed ...
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In the coming days, a slew of graduations will hit local high schools. Somewhere around 700 young men and women will leave high school and begin the next phase of their lives. Multiply that across the nation and there will soon be hundreds of thousands of young people vying in a shrinking job market, or for restricted slots in colleges and ...
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A man claiming to be a U.S. Census Bureau worker damaged two doors while knocking for the residents of a house, according to an incident report filed with the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office. A man living on Golf View Court, Jefferson, said a man claiming to be from the Census Bureau came to his house and started “beating” on the door. A ...
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